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THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 4
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The estate of Zion is pitiful because of sin and iniquity.
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How</span> is the gold become dim!  <i>how</i> is the most fine gold changed!  the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
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The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people <i>is become</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Job 39: 16 (13-16); TG Cruelty.">cruel</a>, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 52: 6.">bread</a>, <i>and</i> no man breaketh <i>it</i> unto them.
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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
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Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing <i>was</i> of sapphire:
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
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<i>They that be</i> slain with the sword are better than <i>they that be</i> slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for <i>want of</i> the fruits of the field.
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The hands of the pitiful <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Woman.">women</a> have <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/4/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 29; Deut. 28: 57 (56-57).">sodden</a> their own children: they were their <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/4/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 19: 9.">meat</a> in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
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The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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&#182; For the <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 31; Hel. 13: 27.">sins</a> of her prophets, <i>and</i> the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/4/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 17: 10; Alma 14: 11; Alma 60: 13.">just</a> in the midst of her,
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They have wandered <i>as</i> blind <i>men</i> in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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They cried unto them, Depart ye; <i>it is</i> unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn <i>there.</i>
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The anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 50 (49-51); 2 Kgs. 2: 23 (23-24); Isa. 3: 5; 1 Ne. 2: 12.">elders</a>.
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As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 7 (5, 7); Jer. 37: 7.">nation</a> <i>that</i> could not save <i>us.</i>
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They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 2 (2-3, 6).">end</a> is come.
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Our persecutors are <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 13; Jer. 39: 5.">swifter</a> than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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The breath of our nostrils, the <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 35: 25; Jer. 39: 7.">anointed</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, was taken in their <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/4/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 8 (4, 8); D&C 122: 7 (5, 7).">pits</a>, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
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&#182; Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/4/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 49: 7; 2 Ne. 21: 14.">Edom</a>, that dwellest in the land of <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/4/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 1: 1.">Uz</a>; the <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/4/21c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 15 (15-16); Mosiah 3: 26; D&C 43: 26 (24-26).">cup</a> also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
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&#182; The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
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